Walter Lippmann

"A large plural society cannot be governed without recognizing that, transcending its plural interests, there is a rational order with a superior common law."

"If the estimate of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs is correct, then Russia has lost the cold war in western Europe."

"It does not matter whether the right to govern is hereditary or obtained with the consent of the governed. A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly …"

"The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being--which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs--where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, …"

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

"The central drama of our age is how the Western nations and the Asian peoples are to find a tolerable basis of co-existence."

"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much."

"A free press is not a privilege but an organic necessity in a great society. ...Without criticism and reliable and intelligent reporting, the government cannot govern. For there is no adequate way in …"